The devil's recruit

Aberdeen in 1635 is uneasy. The Thirty Years' War is convulsing the Continent, with rival kingdoms and faiths locked in a bitter contest, and a ship signing up men for the fighting has anchored at the river's mouth. As townsfolk grow wary, an unsettling figure is glimpsed lurking at the edges of the town.

This is the first novel in Shona MacLean's Alexander Seaton series, a historical mystery set in seventeenth-century Scotland during a period of religious and political upheaval.